Vote to decide The Best Show on TV

‘Why didn’t they include ‘Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23′? Wait, what?! What do you mean it was cancelled?’

Just because the 2012-2013 TV season is over doesn’t mean you have to rely solely on summer programming for your entertainment fix. Entertainment Weekly has devised a March Madness-like bracket survey (May Madness? Summer Madness? No, wait, the Fresh Prince’s new definition of that is “an air of love and of happiness” and something about “every moment frontin’ and maxin.‘) to determine what is the Best Show On TV. Each day they’ll put up a different pairing out of 64 shows on their Facebook page and ask you to vote. The choices come from network, basic cable and pay channels, and cover the genres of comedy, drama, reality and competition shows.

Feel free to participate online here for the next 63(?) days, helping your choices make it to the next round. But if you want to fill out the whole thing now check out the bracket below. I’ve got to tell you, I encountered some heartbreaking Sophie’s Choice-caliber decisions (Way to go, hyperbolic and offensive in one fell swoop) in filling out mine. Honestly, when I got down toJustifiedvs. Louie, I nearly gave up. (And then whichever of those two that emerged victorious would have to take on The Good Wife. Make it stop!)

One last thing before moving on to your own bracket: with no manipulation or dodgy decision making, with only careful, considered and, at times, painful selections (I’m so sorry, Julianna Margulies!), I was still able to get to a final twoBreaking Bad and Mad Men, possibly what I would have answered at the outset if you had posed the question, “What are the two best shows on TV today?” As for my final winner ……………..